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Really Bad Puns…

-I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.-When chemists die, they barium.-Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.-How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.-I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.-This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore.-I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down.-I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.-They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.-PMS jokes aren’t funny. Period.-Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.-We are going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there’s no pop quiz.-Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?-When you get a bladder infection urine trouble.-Broken pencils are pointless.-I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.-What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.-England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.-I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.-I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.-I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.-Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.-Velcro, what a rip off!-A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.-Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!-The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government’s fault.-Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings, too.-When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. -I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded. -Marriage is the mourning after the knot before. -Corduroy pillows are making headlines. -Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome? -Sea captains don’t like crew cuts. -A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter. -A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumour. -Without geometry, life is pointless. -When you dream in colour, it’s a pigment of your imagination. -Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.-A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. -Dijon vu – the same mustard as before. -What’s the definition of a will? (Come on, it’s a dead giveaway!) -A backwards poet writes inverse. -In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism, your count votes. -With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress. -He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key. -Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis. -Doctors tell us there are over seven million people who are overweight. These, of course, are only round figures. -What is the purpose of reindeer? It makes the grass grow, sweetie.-There were two ships. One had red paint, one had blue paint. They collided. At last report, the survivors were marooned.-The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow. I rang her up and asked, “Did you get my drift?”-Where do you find giant snails? On the ends of giant’s fingers.-Why is Saudi Arabia free of mental illness? There are nomad people there.-When I was in the supermarket I saw a man and a woman wrapped in a barcode. I asked “Are you two an item?”-When she told me I was average, she was just being mean.-This duck walks into a bar and orders a beer. “Four bucks,” says the bartender. “Put it on my bill.”-A dog with his leg wrapped in bandages hobbles into a saloon. He sidles up to the bar and announces “I’m lookin’ fer the man who shot my paw.”-A termite walks into a bar and says “Is the bar tender here?”-Four fonts walk into a bar. The barman says “Hey get out! We don’t want your type in here!”

Puns can be one of the most entertaining ways to have fun with words. A pun inserted in a joke or riddle can result in an amusing punch line with the added element of surprise. The humor comes from the misuse of words that are spelled the same or sound similar, but have very different meanings.